Intelligence

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness

The less men think, the more they talk.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect

It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense

Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less favored brothers

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party